Crafting Constitutions

Issue Date July 1996
Volume 7
Issue 3
Page Numbers 166-70
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A review of Comparative Constitutional Engineering: An Inquiry into Structures, Incentives and Outcomes, by Giovanni Sartori.

About the Author

John M. Carey is John Wentworth Professor in the Social Sciences at Dartmouth College.

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